Jerome Tang @ Kansas St and Steve Lavin at San Diego
UMKC already announced that they are bringing in Mark Turgeon next season.
What weird career for Lavin
1996–2003 UCLA (Pac-10 Coach of the Year in 2001)
then a seven year break
2010–2015 St. John’s
then a seven year break
2022–present University of San Diego (not to be confused with SDSU)
seems he was taking a step backward each move he made
Completely forgot Lavin was coaching again.
Cue up the Steele to San Diego rumors! 
I learned today that Steve Lavin had been coaching San Diego since 2022.
The Tommy Tuberville of college basketball.
Went to the sweet 16 a bunch at UCLA and I think once even the final 8 but never had much luck anywhere else. I thought he was at New Mexico for a while but I might be wrong about it
Even UCSD is better, they are the 3rd best team in the city!
You might be thinking of Steve Alford who was at New Mexico before UCLA and I think was last seen at Nevada
Still coaching at Nevada. Has been there for awhile.
Doh! Yes. Tyou!
Alford has a nicer resume.
USD could be a pretty good job for the right coach. It’s a decent school in a fun league (WCC). After Gonzaga leaves this summer, being competitive with the rest of the top tier of the conference is a reasonable goal.
Fun fact: Ed Schilling (Pepperdine) and Herb Sendek (Santa Clara) both are coaching in the WCC, although Ed’s significantly underwater this season with only seven wins and may not be long for that gig.
Not great, Bob.
Made me google Thad Matta and I don’t see this rumor anywhere else right now. Hopefully for Miami it’s not accurate
Butler is obviously on the Steele radar but is it really an appealing job? He just went through a total 4 year rebuild and Butler will be even harder in the Big East. Hurley just commented last week after UConn beat them that it’s unfortunate they have so few resources.
Butler will ALWAYS be team 3 in Indianapolis. Even during the back to back run, this is an IU town first and Purdue second.
They’ve really struggled since moving up.
As Steele likes to say about players moving up, grass isn’t always greener.
Boo!
What happens if you don’t get it done right away, when the boosters expected a miracle worker? Not sure if Coach Steele wants to be in that situation, where automatic success is anticipated, with no time to build YOUR program. There are so many stories of guys like John Groce, Porter Moser and Stan Heath, who went to a larger program and were paid boo-koo bucks and then returned to their lil’ ol’ rinky-dink conference with their tails between their legs. Not fun.